Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Extrusion textures in monolithic NiAl and an NiAl/AlN particle composite are compared. The NiAl has a generally increasing grain size with extrusion temperature, and a corresponding transition from <110> to <111> fiber texture. The results suggests that <110> is more closely related to the deformation texture, while the <111> is a recrystallization orientation formed by preferential growth. The composite exhibits <311> fiber texture, and this is consistent with slip in <100> directions. The effect of the AlN particles is to prevent the orientation changes observed in the monolithic NiAl during recrystallization.